I went to Greenwich last
Saturday - what an amazing place! So beautiful! Alex gets
to see this every day because it's on his cycle route, but this was my
first trip. It took two different buses, the first to Eltham
Station (Eltham is where both Henry VIII and Bob Hope were born -
several centuries apart!), and then the second to Greenwich, getting
off at the Royal Naval College. Here's some of my photos taken that day.
I think these are the sides of the Samuel Pepys Museum. Pepys is best known (well, to me, anyway) for his diary, where he recorded the events of the Plague in London, and the Great Fire. When I first read about him as a child, I thought his name was pronounced "Peppies", but it took me quite a while to discover that it's actually pronounced "Peeps". It still takes me aback, and I have to think for a moment before I say it. Another thing that sticks in my mind about him is that apparently he finished his diary entries every night, no matter how exciting the events of the day, with the phrase, "And so, to bed". Or so I've heard.
The Pepys Museum, Royal Naval College, Greenwich (the
front entrance,
photographed in halves. Or near halves!). The statue out
front is Sir Walter Raleigh.
Of course, there's a reason why Pepys features at the Royal Naval College, and that's because as well as being a famous diarist, he worked first at the Navy Board and then effectively created the Admiralty as an efficient department of state. For the almost thirty years following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660, Pepys dominated naval administration and brought it to a hitherto unseen peak of professionalism. In 1660 Pepys had no experience of naval administration. He was appointmented as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board mainly because his patron was Edward Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, a General-at-Sea during the Commonwealth era under Robert Blake and a major figure in the Restoration. Nevertheless, through his undoubted organisational skills and commitment to the navy he became a close advisor to the Lord High Admiral, Charles’ brother and the future King James II. Pepys was credited with saving the navy’s supply system from collapse during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1665-1667.
I think these are the sides of the Samuel Pepys Museum. Pepys is best known (well, to me, anyway) for his diary, where he recorded the events of the Plague in London, and the Great Fire. When I first read about him as a child, I thought his name was pronounced "Peppies", but it took me quite a while to discover that it's actually pronounced "Peeps". It still takes me aback, and I have to think for a moment before I say it. Another thing that sticks in my mind about him is that apparently he finished his diary entries every night, no matter how exciting the events of the day, with the phrase, "And so, to bed". Or so I've heard.
The Pepys Museum, Royal Naval College, Greenwich (the
front entrance,
photographed in halves. Or near halves!). The statue out
front is Sir Walter Raleigh.Of course, there's a reason why Pepys features at the Royal Naval College, and that's because as well as being a famous diarist, he worked first at the Navy Board and then effectively created the Admiralty as an efficient department of state. For the almost thirty years following the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660, Pepys dominated naval administration and brought it to a hitherto unseen peak of professionalism. In 1660 Pepys had no experience of naval administration. He was appointmented as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board mainly because his patron was Edward Montagu, the Earl of Sandwich, a General-at-Sea during the Commonwealth era under Robert Blake and a major figure in the Restoration. Nevertheless, through his undoubted organisational skills and commitment to the navy he became a close advisor to the Lord High Admiral, Charles’ brother and the future King James II. Pepys was credited with saving the navy’s supply system from collapse during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, 1665-1667.